Techno Musings

During the week of June 14th, I’ll be in Santa Clara as a part of HDS Day or HDS Blogger Day or what we are calling it formally “HDS Geek Day 0.9.”  We’ve invited several bloggers to attend in person so that we can cover Hitachi’s capabilities and prowess (take a look at the screenshot [...]

We just completed a portion of our scale testing on the Hitachi Content Platform and I’m pleased to say that we were able to fill the system to a billion objects.  Some characteristics of the system tested are:

Today I got to thinking about the future of rich applications on the Internet specifically consideration about HTML5 and FLASH.  The first thing is that I don’t yet have an opinion one way or the other.  What tickled by brain a bit was remembering that sometime ago a tenacious individual created a UNIX-like operating system [...]

So it has been a month now of using my iPad, I have managed to take it with me almost everyday. In the morning I bring it with me to the gym and while on the stationary bike either catchup on email, read the news online, or watch a TV episode that I’ve downloaded [...]

Late last year we did a series of shorts, at the white board, talking about cloud storage and how Hitachi’s existing offerings can help with getting traditional applications writing into the cloud.  Well we just released them and you can find all 5 of the videos here.  I’ve embedded the first video in this post [...]

Greetings I’m giving a blogging client for the iPad a spin with this post.
Speaking of the iPad Mr. Hollis of EMC fame recently bought an iPad for his family and it has become a roaring success with them. He even quotes one of his family members as saying that whoever forgot to wipe the iPad [...]

Today the Gazopa team announced the availability of a new service on top of the visual searching platform. This system is another demonstration of the core image search technology, but adds crowd sourcing to the visual searching. The site is Gazopa Bloom and is available for private beta, so head on over and [...]

If you have the chance head on over to popsci.com/archives and take a gander at their archive that has been put online.  Since both Pete and I have been talking about how to keep information stored for a really long time and specifically the 100 or 1000 year archive has come up, here is a [...]

Over at the American Scientist web site is a rather lengthy, but fascinating article on information archival and preservation.  I highly recommend that you take the time to read this article as  for me it really hit home as I transition from an old to a new laptop.  Basically I start having all of these [...]

If you have not already heard the Hitachi Central Research Lab has their image search engine at the beta stage.  The name of the beta application is Gazopa and there are even iPhone and Facebook applications for the service.